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Posted on 30-Oct-2003 10:17 GMT by Bill Panagouleas54 comments
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Over the last several months since I started the AmiZilla Project I have heard a growing whisper to allow the funds to also be available to the programmers of IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb. Most, like myself wish for a Mozilla or Firebird port to Amiga OS/MorphOS but a growing few do continue to express their love of the Amiga Browsers, which is understandable. AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash

Over the last several months since I started the AmiZilla Project I have heard a growing whisper to allow the funds to also be available to the programmers of IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb. Most, like myself wish for a Mozilla or Firebird port to Amiga OS/MorphOS but a growing few do continue to express their love of the Amiga Browsers, which is understandable. So today unless the current donators to the AmiZilla Project mind I am extending the AmiZilla Initiative to also include IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb. What this means is if the coders of these browsers update their programs to a functional comparable feature set of Mozilla 1.5 or FireBird they will win the AmiZilla contest and get the money. The programming teams will have to study the rich and extensive feature set of Mozilla or Firebird and update their browsers to something similar. Keep in mind that this is a contest so only the winner that crosses the finish line first wins. I respect and commend the Amiga browser developers for all of their hard work over the years and hope this puts them on equal footing for a chance to win the over $4100 that has already been collected for AmiZilla. The requirements will stay the same as far as making it available for Amiga, MorphOS, AROS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE Etc. Keep in mind teams have already been working hard part time to port Mozilla so keep the funds coming in to motivate these teams to bring this project to completion so that other new projects can be started like updating the Video Toaster Flyer source code. The new players in this contest (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb) will also want incentive to update and extend their applications. The money already collected is a good start but may not be enough to get the teams to spend as much time on the AmiZilla Project as they normally would with a much large pot of funds to win.

Current Booty: $4159.40

Mailinglist now has over 220 members and over 330 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.

AmiZilla website has gotten over 2 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.

AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream websites like CNET's news.com, mozillazine.org and many others.

http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3262

http://www.toolinux.com/lininfo/news/news/news20030608003711.htm

Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4150, which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via this weblink.
www.amizilla.org


Best regards

Bill Panagouleas


About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time. Project now welcomes the programming teams of IBrowse, Voyager and AWeb to join the contest.

About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more!
AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash : Comment 51 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by greenboy on 01-Nov-2003 15:15 GMT
Well, I really don't know what to say about marketing talk, and don't know some of what has gone on here and there. I'm just trying to find a way to get things and people together and rolling.

Coming from a background that includes playing in bands, I know that often there are one or two powerhouses that set the tone and direction and bear much of the workload, while the other members do what they are inclined to do, and what needs to be done to make the music happen on stage and in studio. Usually they are all getting paid the same {a number that usually approaches the SMALL side of infinity ; } in spite of the varying degrees of work and sweat and thought.

And many bands would die if immediately the members where all trying to enforce their personal views on who should be called LEADER, who should be getting paid more, and who should be getting paid less. It's about finding a balance and the chemistry that allows things to get rolling. Musicians are often accused of having big egos, but many of them exercise restraint for a greater common good and a dream, because they want to believe in the dream. They live in a world where much is unquantifiable, and it takes longer to guess how a pie should be divided than it does to just bake some pies and put them out there for people who say they want to eat pie.

Hats off to the ones who find ways to work together in an uncertain set of circumstances!
AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash : Comment 52 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 01-Nov-2003 15:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 50 (o1i):
I try my best not to sound like a salesman from Acme Vaporware Inc. Jim Collas, anyone? :-) But I think I've only posted, when there's been some kind of progress, whether it was the finishing of a plan, or the release of some software.

The announcing of the intent of porting KHTML and the contact we've established with the KHTML authors, I think was pretty important and was meant to send people the message that the plan is taking a direction which developers can use to speculate whether they want to participate or not.

BTW: For comment 45, the progress happening here, would be for the sudden progress in the conversion of the original AWeb to GCC by Andy Broad. It doesn't have anything to do with KHTML. Good work, Andy. :-)

Regards,
Henrik Mikael Kristensen
AWeb Development Team
AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash : Comment 53 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by o1i on 01-Nov-2003 18:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 51 (greenboy):
And you definately have my respect for your good work.

Not an easy job and the chance for success is way
below 100%, but hey, why not try it. I'll keep trying
with amizilla, as long as I find some time and it is
still fun.

Btw, what's up here, all the trolls off for the weekend!?
AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash : Comment 54 of 54ANN.lu
Posted by AnonX on 07-Nov-2003 19:32 GMT
Theres been no status report because theres been virtually no progress
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